Cook County prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to decide on whether to prosecute R&B star R. Kelly on sexual abuse charges involving four Chicago-area women.
At a brief hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court building, Assistant State’s Attorney Tene McCoy Cummings told Judge Lawrence Flood that the prosecution still is assembling transcripts from Kelly’s trials in federal court in New York and Chicago, where the singer has already been convicted on charges related to having sex with underage girls.
"I am eager to see where the state stands on this and to push forward if that’s where we’re going," said Kelly’s lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean. Bonjean, who represented Kelly in his federal trial in Chicago and is handling his post-trial motions in New York, offered to provide transcripts to the prosecution."I don’t think transcripts should stand in the way beyond the 30 days," Bonjean said.
State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in January 2019 made a public request for victims to come forward after the "Surviving R. Kelly" documentary series aired that month and brought fresh attention to decades-old allegations against the singer. One alleged victim, identified in Cook County records by the initials "R.L." appears to have been the star witness at Kelly’s Chicago federal trial. Testifying under the pseudonym "Jane," the woman said Kelly began molesting her when she was just 14 and that the singer persuaded her and her parents not to cooperate with investigators ahead of Kelly’s 2008 Cook County trial for making sex tapes with her when she was a minor.
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